Quotes About Wisdom

I think all of the secrets of the universe are revealed in history. We understand who we are by understanding where we've been and why we are the way we are, and where we come from.

Quite simply, I owe everything to Jean-Luc. He taught me everything I know about films, about books, about art, about life.

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

Mistakes, once owned, apologized for, and buried, need to be an accepted part of life.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

I'm happy I'm doing films at a slow pace rather than doing anything and everything.

I still think I'm 28. I'm 73. I think I'm 28, though, except that I won't get into a fight with anybody because I just had a pacemaker put in.

What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.

What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.

I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.

As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.

I was always one who thought that if something is painful, you just ignore it and it will go away. That's not true.

Learning is effortless. Learning is a painless process. Learning is something we do naturally!

Jests that give pains are no jests.

I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.